Misc: A.O. Jones Diary, 1936, Lincoln Parish, LA Submitted by: Calvin B. Jones, 180 Bay Drive, Farmerville, LA 71241 Keyed by Jo Autrey, Dallas, TX ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** Spelling and punctuation is as found in transcript compiled by Calvin B. Jones original diary of his father, Arthur O. Jones. The following format is used: Date - day of week - entry - weather entry JANUARY, 1936 1 - Wed - Casterated 2 hogs - worked in shop- rainey 2 - Thu - Cleaned out well hauled post & cane refuse-Oil co. shot charge for formation picture on place - cloudy 3 - Fri - Hauled cane refuse to ditches-Jim & Bell Alex came - abt sick - fair 4 - Sat - Went Ruston - part fair 5 - Sun - Went to Jim & Bell Alexanders - cloudy & rain 6 - Mon - Cut sprouts-hauled cane refuse to ditches in field - fair 7 - Tue - Hauled cane refuse to field - cloudy rain pm 8 - Wed - Went town am-made boxes in the barn - cloudy damp 9 - Thu - Went town to speaking am-hauled cane refuse to field pm - fair 10 - Fri - Plowed terraces near house - fair 11 - Sat - Plowed terraces-Fred Mitchell got male hog to serve sow by-Ernest and etc came - fair 12 - Sun - Went SS-Ernest Alex & wife & Mrs. Alexander went home - fair 13 - Mon - Plowed terraces - fair 14 - Tue - Cut wood for church am-plowed terraces pm - part cloudy 15 - Wed - Plowed terraces - fair 16 - Thu - Plowed terraces & made terrace drag - warm fair 17 - Fri - Plowed terraces - part fair warm 18 - Sat - Went town am-weather suddenly turns cold, freezing - nite 19 - Sun - Snowed Sat nite, abt 3 inches on ground all day went Mr. Davidsons pm - cloudy cold 20 - Mon - Killed hog 266 pounds - cold fair 21 - Tue - Cooked lard made sausage-went town-Election day - cold part fair 22 - Wed - Plowed terraces - warmer fair 23 - Thu - Cut sprouts & plowed terraces - fair cool 24 - Fri - Hauled wood pm-worked at little house - fair cold 25 - Sat - Hauled fodder from little house & wood-plowed terrices - part fair 26 - Sun - Went SS - at home - cold cloudy 27 - Mon - Plowed terraces, cut bushes-Bennie Hughes moved to the little house - cold fair 28 - Tue - Went town, plowed terraces-O.K. Allen Governor of State died - part fair cold 29 - Wed - Worked on quilt box rain & sleet cold - bad snow 30 - Thu - Snowed at nite 3 in-worked on box-sold hog Pat Reynolds $5.00 - cold 31 - Fri - Went town-worked on box - cold fair FEBRUARY, 1936 1 - Sat - Cut & hauled wood-worked on little house for Bennie snow about all melted - cloudy damp 2 - Sun - Went SS nite rain - cloudy damp warmer 3 - Mon - Worked on little house doors, steps etc - rainey 4 - Tue - Cold - plowed terrices pm - cloudy cold 5 - Wed - Went Ruston am-hope Bennie fix heater - part cloudy 6 - Thu - At house fix holes in tin with lead - rainy & freezing 7 - Fri - Plowed terrices-ice melted off trees - cloudy damp cold 8 - Sat - Went town & hauled wood for Mrs. Killins & self - cloudy cold 9 - Sun - Went SS-taken cow to male (no good) - fair cold 10 - Mon - Nailed some tin on house roof-plowed terrices pm - fair cloudy 11 - Tue - Finished tin roof on room of house am-plowed terrices pm - fair cloudy 12 - Wed - Plowed terrices - warm cloudy fair 13 - Thu - Plowed terrices - warm fair 14 - Fri - Plowed terrices - pigs came - cloudy cool 15 - Sat - Plowed terrices-C.L. (Chester) Trussell died- went town & church-cut sprouts - part fair 16 - Sun - Went Church, Bro McCann came for dinner -cloudy cold 17 - Mon - Cut bushes am-plowed terrices pm - cloudy damp cold 18 - Tue - Staid in house all day, made crate for shipping 6 cans syrup - abt 10 above zero fair cold cold 19 - Wed - Went Ruston - cloudy cold 20 - Thu - Plowed garden & put out fertilizer & potato patch - a little warmer 21 - Fri - Put out fert for potato patch-Mrs. Davidon came plowed terrices - fair 22 - Sat - Went town & plowed terrices - fair 23 - Sun - Went SS-Jim & Bell Alexander came 24 - Mon - Plowed terrices-shipped syrup to Eva - part cloudy warm 25 - Tue - Plowed terrices - part cloudy - windy warm 26 - Wed - plowed terrices am-rained all pm - rain 27 - Thu - Finished terrices - fair 28 - Fri - Hauled rock to fill ditch below east spring - fair 29 - Sat - Went town-John Lolley came for dinner-planted Irish potatoes pm - fair MARCH, 1936 1 - Sun - Went SS-Claudie went Mrs. Russells pm - part fair 2 - Mon - Plowed in oats - cloudy shower pm 3 - Tue - Went town 2 primary election-plowed in oats - cloudy 4 - Wed - Went Ruston-set hen - most all day - rain 5 - Thu - Plowed in oats - cloudy 6 - Fri - Plowed in oats finished - fair 7 - Sat - Cut trees etc for fence line hog pasture - fair 8 - Sun - Went SS-& cane patch-Pat Reynolds came pm - part fair 9 - Mon - Bedded sweet potatoes & planted long leaf pine seed in plot-set post for fence - fair 10 - Tue - Built fence - fair 11 - Wed - Worked on fence & went town pm - cloudy fair 12 - Thu - Plowed for cane at spring-killed hog pm - fair cool 13 - Fri - Plowed cane land - part fair 14 - Sat - Went town & church - worked in shop - fair warmer 15 - Sun - Went Church - staid home pm - windy fair warm 16 - Mon - Worked in cane patch & planted some cane - cloudy cool 17 - Tue - Planted cane - fair 18 - Wed - Planted cane am-went town & set out banana tree pm - fair 19 - Thu - Plowed corn land - rain late pm wind cool 20 - Fri - Plowed corn land - fair 21 - Sat - Plowed corn land am-Allen Alexander died-went town and hop dig grave pm - fair 22 - Sun - Hope on grave am-Allen burried 4 oc pm - cloudy sprinkled rain 23 - Mon - Plowed corn land am-worked in shop pm - cloudy drizzly 24 - Tue - Planted corn - fair 25 - Wed - Planted corn am & plowed garden etc pm - fair cloudy pm 26 - Thu - Planted cane got from Bennie Hughes am - rain pm 27 - Fri - Plowed corn land - cloudy 28 - Sat - Plowed corn land-Jim Alexander bought 2 pigs $5.00 - fair 29 - Sun - Chloe & children came - fair 30 - Mon - Went Ruston for Calvin had tooth pulled-sold hog to Jule-plowed pm - cloudy 31 - Tue - Planted corn-Mr Dye got 50 gals syrup - cloudy APRIL, 1936 1 - Wed - Planted corn & plowed land for corn - part cloudy cool 2 - Thu - Plowed corn land - fair windy cool 3 - Fri - Planted corn-frost killed a lots of growth - fair 4 - Sat - Moved Bennie Hughes to Dye place-went town pm- finished planting corn Ledford cut - cloudy 5 - Sun - Went SS - cloudy windy 6 - Mon - Worked in corn patch am-plowed corn land pm - cloudy windy cold 7 - Tue - Plowed corn land west of road - part cloudy cool 8 - Wed - Planted corn west of road-damp am- rain most of all pm 9 - Thu - Went town am-finished corn pm-planted some peas - faired off 10 - Fri - Cut bushes in cotton land-taken red cow to male- taken - fair 11 - Sat - Cut bushes etc-Jack Lewis sow taken male - fair 12 - Sun - Went SS & Easter Egg hunt etc - fair 13 - Mon - Taken cow to male-planted 2 rows watermellons and 1 row cantelopes-Claudie sick-plowed some in cotton - fair 14 - Tue - Plowed cotton land - fair 15 - Wed - Plowed cotton land-sow taken male - fair 16 - Thu - Plowed cotton land - part cloudy cooler 17 - Fri - Plowed cotton land - fair 18 - Sat - Plowed cotton land-went to preaching & town pm - fair 19 - Sun - Went church-Mrs. Alexander & Jessie came - fair 20 - Mon - Plowed cotton middles-Jim Alex got planter - fair 21 - Tue - Plowed am-went to election & town pm - clouded showers 22 - Wed - Went Ruston am-plowed pm - cloudy cool 23 - Thu - Plowed, & slipped dirt out of ditched - fair 24 - Fri - plowed cotton land - fair 25 - Sat - Plowed cotton land-planted few cotton rows - fair 26 - Sun - Went SS - fair 27 - Mon - Plowed cotton land-need rain bad - part cloudy 28 - Tue - Plowed some-painted quilt box-showers most of day - nite rain 29 - Wed - Plowed cotton land - part cloudy 30 - Thu - Planted cotton Jim hope - part cloudy MAY, 1936 1 - Fri - Planted cotton - Jim hope - part fair 2 - Sat - Planted cotton -taken red cow to male-went town pm -part fair 3 - Sun - Rained most of day-went to Mr. Ledfords - faired late pm 4 - Mon - Plowed & planted cotton - set hen - faired 5 - Tue - Plowed & planted cotton-Mr. Sims brought 2 hogs for male svc - fair 6 - Wed - Finished planting cotton-Mr C. Sumlin died-plowed truck patches - fair 7 - Thu - Went to Mr. Sumlins funeral - fair 8 - Fri - Plowed cane - etc - part fair 9 - Sat - Plowed watermellons & corn-went town - showers pm 10 - Sun - Went SS - showers warm 11 - Mon - Put out soda on corn-thinned corn - showers 12 - Tue - Thinned corn & put out soda - warm part cloudy 13 - Wed - Went Ruston got check am-plowed corn put out fert - part fair 14 - Thu - Plowed corn & put out soda on corn - fair 15 - Fri - Plowed corn - fair 16 - Sat - Plowed corn-went church - rain pm 17 - Sun - Went church-Eunice came - part cloudy 18 - Mon - Plowed corn - shower pm 19 - Tue - Plowed corn am-& cotton terrices in pm - fair 20 - Wed - Plowed cotton terrices & broke potato land - fair 21 - Thu - Plowed potato land, peas & corn west of house - fair 22 - Fri - Plowed corn & planted peas in corn west of road - fair 23 - Sat - Planted peas am-went town pm - fair 24 - Sun - Went to Jim Alexanders - fair 25 - Mon - Borred off cotton am-hoed cane pm - shower pm 26 - Tue - Borred off cotton - showers pm 27 - Wed - Borred off cotton - part cloudy 28 - Thu - Borred off cotton - School closed - cloudy 29 - Fri - borred off cotton - P - fair 30 - Sat - Went SS- Jim & Belle Alexander came - fair 31 - Sun - went SS-Jim & Belle Alexander came - fair JUNE, 1936 1 - Mon - Plowed cotton & boys hoed - cloudy-fair 2 - Tue - plowed & hoed cotton - fair-cloudy 3 - Wed - Plo0wed & hoed cotton - hot-sprinkle pm 4 - Thu - Plowed & hoed cotton - fair 5 - Fri - Plowed & hoed cotton - fair 6 - Sat - Plowd cotton-went town pm - fair 7 - Sun - Went SS & Mr. Sims & Monroe Morrises - fair 8 - Mon - Plowed corn terrices Claudia & children finished hoeing cotton on south out - fair 9 - Tue - Plowed corn - need rain hot & dry 10 - Wed - Plowed corn-boys hoed cotton - part cloudy 11 - Thu - Plowed corn-boys hoed cotton - part cloudy 12 - Fri - Plowed corn - dry fair 13 - Sat - Cut oaks & went town pm - hot dry fair 14 - Sun - Went SS-staid home-Mr. Daniels came - hot dry 15 - Mon - Cut oats am-plowed cotton pm - hot dry 16 - Tue - Plowed cotton - hot fair 17 - Wed - Plowed watermellons, cotton, corn & peas - fair hot 18 - Thu - Plowed peas in corn-crops burning up - fair hot 19 - Fri - Plowed corn & set post for fence - hot dry 20 - Sat - Built fence between oats & corn-went town pm - fair hot 21 - Sun - Went church - hot dry 22 - Mon - Picked berries - shower nite fair hot 23 - Tue - Dug Irish potatoes am-Picked berries pm - part cloudy 24 - Wed - Picked berries - fair 25 - Thu - Plowed cotton - warm fair 26 - Fri - Plowed cotton-Monroe Morris came - fair 27 - Sat - Plowed am - fair 28 - Sun - Went SS - Ethel Choate & children came - fair 29 - Mon - Plowed cotton - fair 30 - Tue - Went town-hope can tomatoes, bought them - fair JULY, 1936 1 - Wed - Went Ruston, had tooth pulled-showers pm & good rain at nite 2 - Thu - Sick in bed most of day - cloudy showers 3 - Fri - Fixed fence am-Viola & all came Went to Chloes pm - cloudy 4 - Sat - At Chloes - showery 5 - Sun - Came home 12 oc am-Mr & Mrs Reynolds came pm - showers 6 - Mon - Fixed fence-made gate to pasture-hoed potatoes - cloudy 7 - Tue - Planted peas & hoed cane - part fair hot 8 - Wed - Went town & to see gas well come in - hot part fair 9 - Thu - Planted garden & plowed cotton terrices - part cloudy 10 - Fri - Plowed terrices in cotton - part fair 11 - Sat - Went Ruston am-plowed patches pm - hot cloudy 12 - Sun - Mr & Mrs Alexander came - part fair 13 - Mon - Planted peas & plowed potatoes etc - hot fair 14 - Tue - Plowed cotton middles - fair 15 - Wed - Plowed cotton & put up table at Church - fair 16 - Thu - At grave yard working & went town - sprinkle pm part fair 17 - Fri - Plowed cotton-Claudie canned peaches - fair 18 - Sat - Went to Trussel grave yard working-Uncle John came home with me - part fair 19 - Sun - Went Church-Jim & Bell Alexander came - part fair 20 - Mon - Plowed cotton terrices-hoed cotton & cane - part fair 21 - Tue - Sick - taken at nite - cloudy 22 - Wed - Sick - rain most of the day 23 - Thu - Better-several came etc - part cloudy 24 - Fri - In bed most of the day - fair 25 - Sat - Went Simsboro Church nite - fair 26 - Sun - Went SS-Monroe & Mrs Russell came - part fair 27 - Mon - Plowed some peas-cleaned out well - cloudy 28 - Tue - Plowed peas - fair 29 - Wed - Went town-worked on porch & steps - fair 30 - Thu - Hoed cane - fair 31 - Fri - Hoed & plowed cane - fair AUGUST, 1936 1 - Sat - Finished plowing cane-went town pm - clouded 2 - Sun - Went SS & to Jim Alexanders with Monroe Morris - fair 3 - Mon - Plowed peas & sawed stove wood - part fair 4 - Tue - Plowed peas & etc - hot fair 5 - Wed - Went to Baton Rouge to see State Capitol Bldg - fair 6 - Thu - Came back 9 pm - fair hot 7 - Fri - Plowed peas - part fair hot 8 - Sat - Plowed peas am - went town pm - part cloudy hot 9 - Sun - Went SS & Mr Bobbie Kings with Mr Daniels - part fair hot 10 - Mon - Cut corn tops for fodder - hot fair 11 - Tue - Went Ruston AM-cut corn tops pm - part fair 12 - Wed - Cut corn tops - hot fair 13 - Thu - Cut corn tops - fair 14 - Fri - Hauled in corn tops - part fair hot 15 - Sat - Hauled corn tops am-worked at church pm - hot part cloudy 16 - Sun - Meeting began went church-Mary Alexander came - hot fair 17 - Mon - Went church-Rev McCann came for dinner - fair 18 - Tue - Picked some cotton-went church - part fair 19 - Wed - School Board meets-taken cow to male-cleaned out pool - went church=Ernest & all came - fair 20 - Thu - Ernest & family & Leona went home-went to Monroe Morrises- went church - fair 21 - Fri - Went church-picked some cotton-Mrs. Bells came nite - fair 22 - Sat - Went church-Monroe Morris & Jim Alexander came - fair 23 - Sun - Went to Minden-Ernest came after us - fair 24 - Mon - Came home-hope Ernest dress yearling - showers 25 - Tue - Picked cotton - cloudy some rain 26 - Wed - Picked cotton - hot part cloudy 27 - Thu - Picked cotton-hauled bale cotton to gin - fair 28 - Fri - Picked peas & cotton - fair 29 - Sat - Picked peas am & cotton-taken red cow to male pm - showers late pm 30 - Sun - Went SS & to Mr Frank & Bob Davidsons - fair 31 - Mon - Picked peas & cotton - fair SEPTEMBER, 1936 1 - Tue - Picked peas & cotton, went town late pm - part fair 2 - Wed - Picked peas-Mr Jim Lomax Burried-pigs came 4 of them cut some wood - part fair 3 - Thu - Cut wood for syrup mill - hot part cloudy 4 - Fri - Split wood-picked cotton - fair 5 - Sat - Went Ruston am - fair 6 - Sun - Went & to Mr Daniels pm - fair 7 - Mon - Picked peas & cotton - part cloudy 8 - Tue - Picked cotton - part cloudy 9 - Wed - Picked cotton-gathered some muscadines - part cloudy 10 - Thu - Picked cotton - sprinkle rain pm hot part fair 11 - Fri - Hauled bale cotton to gin-hauled in one load corn - fair 12 - Sat - Thrashed some peas & etc - fair 13 - Sun - Went SS am-& Mrs Russells Pm - fair 14 - Mon - School starts-went town & Ruston - showers 15 - Tue - Worked on colvert Reynolds-picked cotton pm - traded cows to Lewey Best - fair 16 - Wed - Picked cotton-shower-picked green peas-to take town - part fair 17 - Thu - Picked cotton - fair 18 - Fri - Picked cotton - part fair 19 - Sat - Went Simsboro am-went church pm - part fair 20 - Sun - Went Church & church called pastor & officers Jim & Belle & Mrs Reynolds came - part fair 21 - Mon - Picked peas am & cotton - showers late pm hot 22 - Tue - Hope work on J.C. McCanns house, Chouderant La. - part fair hot 23 - Wed - Hope on house - part fair 24 - Thu - Picked cotton & peas - shower am 25 - Fri - Picked cotton - part cloudy 26 - Sat - Went town am-showers-picked cotton pm - cloudy 27 - Sun - Went SS- & to see ditch machine work on pipeline - part fair 28 - Mon - Rain am-picked some peas & cotton - cloudy 29 - Tue - Picked cotton - cool & faired 30 - Wed - Picked cotton - cloudy [Submitter's Note: * J.C. McCann was pastor at Walnut Creek for a number of years] OCTOBER, 1936 1 - Thu - Went to Association at Barnet Springs - fair 2 - Fri - Went to Association - " " - fair 3 - Sat - Went town am-picked cotton pm - fair 4 - Sun - Went Jim Alexanders-Mr Collins died, fell dead in pasture - fair 5 - Mon - Went town-hauled bale cotton-Mr Collins burried - fair 6 - Tue - Hauled corn 2 loads am-pulled corn pm - fair 7 - Wed - Went to Ruston-hauled 2 loads corn-rainy storm & rain nite 8 - Thu - Worked on window-Hope Jim Alexander onheater-went town - cloudy 9 - Fri - Went to fair at Simsboro La - fair 10 - Sat - Hauled & pulled corn-Uncle John Colvin came - fair 11 - Sun - Went SS am-Mr Bishop, Mr & Mrs Rob Hines came, Uncle John went home - fair 12 - Mon - Picked peas & cotton - fair cool 13 - Tue - Picked peas & cotton - fair 14 - Wed - Hope dig grave Causey-picked cotton - part cloudy 15 - Thu - Picked cotton - fair 16 - Fri - Picked cotton - foggy am - fair pm 17 - Sat - Picked cotton-went town - fair 18 - Sun - Went church & to Mr Leadfords - fair 19 - Mon - Picked cotton - fair 20 - Tue - Plowed garden am-thrashed peas pm - fair cool 21 - Wed - Thrashed some peas pm - part fair 22 - Thu - Town am-hauled a bale of cotton to gin pm - cloudy 23 - Fri - Went to Ruston-cut some seed cane down - cloudy cool 24 - Sat - Sawed wood am-put new glass panes in windows pm - cloudy rainey 25 - Sun - Went SS- cloudy & rain most all pm & nite rain 26 - Mon - Planted some turnips-set out onions-went town pm - cloudy 27 - Tue - Hauled some wood am-cut cane pm - cloudy 28 - Wed - Hauled & cut some wood-Jim Alex came after wagon - cloudy 29 - Thu - Dug some potatoes pm - faired 30 - Fri - Dug & hauled in sweet potatoes - fair 31 - Sat - Taken Jimmie's cow to male-hauled in potaoes went town - clouded [Submitter's Note: * Jimmie Gilmore, neighbor] NOVEMBER, 1936 1 - Sun - Went SS - Mrs Russell came - part fair warm 2 - Mon - Worked on cane mill - part cloudy 3 - Tue - Went town to election - 1st frost cool - all day rain 4 - Wed - Went Monroe to circus - big frost - fair cool 5 - Thu - Stripped cane - cool fair 6 - Fri - Hauled cane & wood - fair 7 - Sat - Made syrup am 13 gals - went town pm - part fair 8 - Sun - Went to Jim Alexanders - part cloudy 9 - Mon - Went Ruston am-sawed wood pm - part cloudy cool 10 - Tue - Made syrup for Jim Alexander 31 gals & Mrs Reynolds 8 gals - part fair 11 - Wed - Made syrup for Jim Alexander 19 gals - part fair 12 - Thu - Went town Monroe Morrises-sawed some wood - fair 13 - Fri - Hope Mr Leadford build steps & split some wood went to meeting at town - fair 14 - Sat - Sawed wood am-went church & town pm - fair 15 - Sun - Went Church - fair 16 - Mon - Worked on syrup mill - cut some wood-casterated big hog - fair 17 - Tue - Made syrup for Mr Davidson - sprinkled rain - part fair 18 - Wed - Made syrup for Mr Davidon & Erber Houck - part cloudy 19 - Thu - Made syrup Eber & Mr Eubanks - fair 20 - Fri - Sawed wood - part fair 21 - Sat - Went town-Jim Alexander came-Clara Belle sick - fair 22 - Sun - Went SS-Clara Belle sick - fair 23 - Mon - Baby sick-staid in house-started raining 8 am - all day & nite rain 24 - Tue - Had Dr Johnson with baby-went to Ruston - fair 25 - Wed - At home - part fair 26 - Thu - Thanksgiving - baby sick - fair 27 - Fri - Hauled some wood - fair 28 - Sat - Ernest & folks came pm-baby some better - part cloudy 29 - Sun - Ernest & folks went home - baby better - cloudy rainey 30 - Mon - Went Ruston - cloudy DECEMBER, 1936 1 - Tue - Transfered sone feed from little house to barn - cloudy 2 - Wed - Went Ruston had tooth pulled-Viola died - rainey 3 - Thu - Jim & Belle came-went town-cut some wood - cloudy 4 - Fri - Cut sprouts on fence row - cloudy 5 - Sat - Cut post & wood-Chloe & children came - rainey big nite rain 6 - Sun - Chloe & children went home am - all day fair 7 - Mon - Worked on fence - faired 8 - Tue - Worked on fence & fence row-went town pm - fair 9 - Wed - Went town-cut fence row - cloudy 10 - Thu - Worked on fence row am - plowed in oats pm - rainey cloudy 11 - Fri - Went town am-Killed hog pm - cloudy cool 12 - Sat - Went town hauled wood & post - fair cold 13 - Sun - Went SS-Ernest & folks came staid all nite 14 - Mon - Went town & Frank Davidsons - part cloudy 15 - Tue - Went town with Jim Alex and around back by H. May and Monroe Morrises - fair 16 - Wed - Filed saws, drug & knocked off oat land-cut wood etc - part fair 17 - Thu - Went Ruston am-Aunt Mollie Morris died 10am-hope dig grave - fair 18 - Fri - Rain early am-hope dig grave-Aunt Mollie Morris burried Walnut Creek - cold damp 19 - Sat - Sawed wood am-Claudie went to Ethel Choates - fair 20 - Sun - Went SS-Monroe Morris & folks came - fair 21 - Mon - Went town am-split some wood pm - fair 22 - Tue - Went town am-split stove top wood pm - part fair 23 - Wed - Hauled wood-taken Claudie to school house - fair 24 - Thu - Hope round house-split some wood etc - fair 25 - Fri - Went to Mr John Givings for Christmas dinner - fair 26 - Sat - Jim & Belle Alexander came-went town - fair 27 - Sun - AM rain-Went Church-Chloe & Malcom came - cloudy rain 28 - Mon - Sawed wood - cloudy damp 29 - Tue - Went Ruston with Malcom to see Dr = rainey 30 - Wed - All morning rain-Went to Mrs. Killins & Mrs Russell - rainey 31 - Thu - Sawed some wood-Malcom hope - part fair